Improved packing for journal-boxes



UNrren STATES PATENT @rrrca JONATHAN '(JONK, OF RED BANK, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVED PACKING FOR JOURNAL-BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 41Ll197, dated January 12, 1864.

To all whom t'tmay concern:

Be it known that I, JONATHAN GONK, of Red Bank, in the county of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, have invented or produced a new and Improved Packing for J ournal-Boxes and for other Purposes; and 1 do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention is designed as asubstitute for cotton waste andother similar fibrous materials which have hitherto been used asapacking for the journal-boxes of railroad-car axles, the

shading of machinery, and for other purposes to or after being placed in thejournal-box, or otherwise applied where it is to be used, is saturated with any of the oils or other lubrieating substances usuallyapplied to machinery.

This packing has been practically tested and has proved to be extremely durable, requiring to be removed only atcomparatively long intervals. It may be obtained at a small price, the cost of gathering the plant or grass being trifling.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A packing for the purpose specified, C0ll1 posed of the Zostcm marina, (grass-wrack, seaeel grass,) or other sea-grass, dried or cured and saturated with any suitable lubricating substance.

his JONATHAN OONK.

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\Nituesses:

' JAMES F. EARLE,

JOHN B. GROVER. 

